Haiti Dance Benefit

Join Heidi Latsky Dance and the cast of GIMP at a benefit performance for Handicap International's prosthetics and orthotics workshop in Haiti on Wednesday, May 26, 2010, at 7:00 pm. The event, “Another Chance to Dance,” is being held at the Jewish Community Center (JCC) in Manhattan.

Heidi Latsky Dance is a New York City-based dance company (established 2001) whose mission is to bring dance to a broad audience in a visceral and emotional way with performers whose unique attributes, physical and otherwise, are honored and utilized in highly dynamic, virtuosic and provocative ways. Currently, the company is in residency at the JCC where, in December 2010, the company will premiere “If,” Latsky's newest work.

The GIMP Project (established 2008) premiered in Albuquerque, N.M., at the North Fourth Arts Center and has been presented at venues that include The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, The Flynn in Burlington, Vt. and the Abrons Arts Center in New York. Heidi Latsky Dance will be touring GIMP internationally throughout the spring and fall of 2010.

The GIMP Project examines the uncompromising ways we are often identified or defined by our physicality; an elegant landscape of portraits, illuminating limbs to accentuate uncommon beauty, mystery and grace. GIMP confronts the audience with their preconceptions, challenging us to re-think accepted notions about dance, performance and body image.

The event will be sponsored by Rhum Barbancourt, Disabilities Network of New York City, HANA – Haitian American Nurses Association and the Association of Haitian Physicians Abroad.

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Handicap International's most prestigious awards include:

2011 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize

For our assistance to people with disabilities in situations of poverty, exclusion, conflict and disaster.

1997 Nobel Peace Prize

For campaign success with our partners at the International Campaign to Ban Landmines in creating the 1997 Ottawa Mine Ban Treaty, which bans the deployment, stockpiling, production and sale of anti-personnel mines, and ensures their destruction.

1996 United Nations Nansen Refugee Award

For our service to refugees as well as our contributions to the elimination of landmines.